Psychoanalytical Theory (Freudian Psychology)

Perversion - its ubiquity in infantile life and its persistence in the psychical and sexual lives of some adults - was a central element of Freud's...

The result of three decades of psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents, this book takes a fresh and empathic look on the pervasive develo...

This book is concerned with the question of what psychoanalytic training should look like today. Should we go on with the system that has developed...

Written originally as a practical handbook on dream analysis, this book has established itself as a work of lasting value not only to psychoanalyst...

Doing Things Differently celebrates the work of Donald Meltzer, who was such a lively force in the training of child psychotherapists at the Tavist...

As a psychiatric trainee at Harvard in the early 1960s, Dr Allan Hobson was taught commitment to psychoanalytic theory that was already suspect and...

The book Psychoanalysis and Severe Handicap: The Hand in the Cap introduces an original look at handicap, a look aiming at capturing the subjectivi...

There are multiple meanings to the term 'group-as-a-whole' and all have a contribution. This book emphasizes that the therapist ideally listens wit...

The world is looking East. Whilst in the West psychoanalysis is fighting to maintain its position among the other therapies in a society which has ...

This book focuses on one of D. W. Winnicott's most enduring and resonant formulations, the True and False Self. It is a salutary reminder of Winnic...

This book examines emerging trends in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice, highlighting inter-subjective and relational models of the m...

This book takes a deeper look into the darker side of the human condition by examining the psyches of those who have been victims or survivors of h...

Volume 7 in the EFPP Series that aims to promote the pan-European community of psychoanalytic psychotherapists. The contributors come from differen...

This volume consists of a series of essays inspired by Freud's paper on Jensen's novel Gradiva - she who steps along. In the story a young archaeol...

In Constructions in Analysis Freud introduces the notion of constructions, different from interpretation, and considers it necessary - under certai...

This book explores the author's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about ...

Covering a wide range of topics, the collection consists of twenty-six papers and essays published over a period of two decades. Readers of this bo...

This book traces the theoretical history of psychosomatics in psychoanalysis, and with it the ways that psychoanalytically-trained clinicians have ...

Natural healing intelligence is one of the great mysteries of the psyche. It is inherently elusive yet lies at the core of all efforts to cure emot...

Joseph Breuer's celebrated patient, Anna O., designated psychoanalysis to be a talking cure. She was correct insofar as psychoanalysis does place v...

Century of Insight is the story of the discovery of the unconscious mind, based on the author's teaching of psychotherapy throughout his career. Be...

In this volume a number of British psychoanalysts introduce us to psychoanlaytic definitions of intra-psychic and subjective meaning in patients su...

This book is the author's 1939 medical thesis and is dedicated to medical practitioners, paediatricians, and parents without prior knowledge of psy...

These are the edited papers from a conference held in 2008 on the topic of problems with child and adolescent analysis. The contributors come from ...